European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday March 23. 1989 conservative Gingrich elected to no. 2 gop Post in House Washington a House re publicans wednesday elected conserva Tive rep. Newt Gingrich to inc Post of minority whip a move award Hie poli tics of confrontation that the Georgia. By More a com Mcnary thai inc party is ready to be aggressive and dynamic and reach put and thai they warned a nc1 definition. Gingrich said after his election Over Veteran rep. Edward Madigan of Illinois the Vole in a closed caucus at the Ca to Hil club was 87-ss. With one bal lot cast for  one of inc. 174 House republicans was nol present. Gingrich appeared later Ai a news con of trance it the Side of gop Louse Leader Nilo Bob Michel the voice of the moderates who have ruled the gop in its decades of minority status in inc House. Michel had quietly backed Madigan for the Job. Gingrich sought to play Down differ Enrco in his party. "1 think you will find this to be a team Effort he said. Ifs not a conservative activist Victory i is the entire Republican  Gingrich replaces Dick Cheney of Wyoming who resigned his House scat and the no. 2 Post in the House gop leadership i become Secretary of de tense. Before the vote was held the mad Igan Gingrich race Lead been viewed As an indicator of whether the party would seek the cooperative relations thai presi Dent Bush espouses or declare War on the democrats who greatly outnumber the republicans in the House. Gingrich 4s, appealed to the gop House members with a pitch that he s a National Republican who will Lead them from inc desert of More than three decades in inc minority. Gingrich s strident attacks on House speaker Jim Wright a Texas which led to an ethics committee investigation gained him backing among Republican. Bit Gingrich was also personally controversial and As the election approached he was fighting Oit questions about an unusual Deal where he got political supporters to help finance publicity for a Book he had published. Rep. New t Gingrich catering to Couch potatoes Frank Jordan of Salem n.h., founder and president of Voth o Van thinks he Lias struck Gold with a sen ice providing Home delivery of rental videos. Franchise in Terest in the hew venture is running High Jordan said Hoof in and Howlin keep officers Busy during Spring break Palm Springs. Calif. A boisterous Young people equipped with bottles instead of books let water fit by Day and hooted honked and howled by night As police handed out tickets by the hundreds during Spring break All we did was Shine our High beams at some cute Guys we were following said Connie Sutton. 20. A part time Junior College student from Sari Jose. They said my Friend made an unsafe Lane change.1 Between Friday when Spring break started and Early tuesday police made 543 arrests and issued 2.709 citations said police it acc we incl that s about 51/ arrests and nearly 28 tickets an hour. The bulk of the arrests focused on drugs and alcohol while tickets were written for such offences As jaywalking noisy stereos and crossing streets before Light  said a speeding 1989 Jaguar went Oul of control tuesday near Palm Springs and smashed into a Palm tree killing the Driver Jon g Tad Way 16, of la Mesa and seriously injuring his three passengers. Witnesses said the sports car was travelling 100 Mph when it crashed. The Palm Springs foot patrol maintained a High profile along the main stretch of Palm Canyon drive where thousands cruised in a slow moving procession to Ogle inc opposite sex. Many who came to show off their cars make new friends and celebrate a week of Freedom from school found themselves digging for Auto registration papers with a police flashlight in their eyes. Those spurting guided and misguided j cos of water from slow moving cars and Rucks were slopped and their squirt bottles  of the kids in the downtown area seem a Little More Rowdy than last year police i Lee Weigel said we Are going 10 keep them under control by continuing our tactics of arrests and citations.". A hot Selling souvenir to shirt featured a photo of advancing  and the words Spring break come on vacation leave on  High court rules Fri can keep rap sheets secret Washington a the supreme court bbl to Turing Lac Fri s Power to keep criminal records secret ruled wednesday that lie Agency docs not have to make Public its rap so acts on some 24 million americans. By a 9-0 Vole the court scuttled a Freedom of information act lawsuit by a lbs news reporter and the reporters committee for Freedom of the press aimed at  documents. Writing for the court Justice John Paul Stevens said disclosure of such information would be an Unwar ranted invasion of privacy. The foia a 1966 Law designed to curtail govern ment secrecy allows government agencies to withhold documents when disclosure could reasonably be sex peeled to constitute an unwarranted invasion of per Sonal  the privacy interest in maintaining the practical obscurity of rap Sheet information will always be High Stevens said. When the subject of such a rap Sheet is a private citizen and when the information is in the govern ment s control As a compilation a Alicr than As u record of what the government is up to the privacy interest protected by the exemption is in fact at its Apex while the Fola based Public interest in disclosure is at it Nadir Stevens said. The Fri maintains identification records called rap sheets on millions of citizens. The records detail arrest and conviction information supplied by Federal stale and local Law enforcement agencies. Lbs correspondent Robert sch Altic in 1978 sought All Fri records of he arrests indictments and court dispositions of any charges against four Brothers two of whom were identified As associates of reputed Penn Sylvania crime Boss Russell Bufalino. Filed under the foia the request sought such information about William Phillip Samuel and Charles  Sid he was trying to determine if the1 Brothers had criminal records because their firm med Ico industries inc., had received lucrative defense con tracts Wilh the help of former rep Daniel 3, flood d a. Schanc said he requested inc Fri tiles As part of his reporting on flood who had been charged with accept ing $50,000 in bribes. Flood pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 1980 and was placed on probation. In 1980, the Pennsylvania crime commission identified Phillip Anglo and William Medico As members of the organized crime family allegedly headed by Bufalino the 1980 report said Bufalino regularly visited the Medico family business near woes Barre pa., overs 20-year period. It said flood has used inc Medico industries bos at a local race track and attended Samuel Medico s funeral Schanc confined his request to documents that were a Manor of Public record but the Fri refused to release any rap sheets except those compiled on the late William Medico